Scholarship table
Just powered through 3 seasons of Yellowstone over the weekend. If you like guns, sex, violence, cowboys and Indians, corporate greed, politics, wolves, grizzly bears, alcohol, mental health, fly fishing, rodeos, meth, train stations, 70 year cowboys shagging 24 year old cowgirls, and branding people with branding irons in a blender, this is the show for you.
Mare is the best HBO show since Succession last aired. Winslet is so good, and the storytelling is superb.
I don't like guns, violence, cowboys and Indians, corporate greed, politics, wolves, grizzly bears, mental health, fly fishing, rodeos, meth, train stations, 70 year cowboys shagging 24 year old cowgirls, and branding people with branding irons in a blender.
Wow, I am in the vast minority here. Winslet is solid, but really is just being monotone depressed and applying an over the top Pennsylvania accent (as does every character in the show). I found the storytelling weak and predictable. I called pretty much every plot twist because they foreshadow it like those old video games (like Legend of Zelda or Pajama Sam if you had a little kid 20 years ago) where you find something shortly before you are going to need it. I though Jean Smart was the best thing about it.No matter where anyone goes, they run into people they need to talk to and get information just before they need it. Pretty much every character behaves in completely unrealistic ways and pretty much react to every situation in ways that no one would actually behave, to further the plot.For instance, if your son attacked a student who was throwing food at his mentally challenged sister, perhaps the first question you would ask him wouldn't be "Is your father having an affair? Is that why you are upset?" Just one of a hundred examples.My wife loved it.
Sorry to inject more Mare conversation but ..I did not understand the subplot with Billy and John. I had to go back and re-watch it, it just didn't make any sense. John gets Billy to say out loud, "I killed her" with cathartic crying when clearly he didn't kill her. It's pretty convoluted that an uncle was going to take the wrap for his nephew, instead of his father.Then there's the whole gun in the fishing box, like John was going to kill Billy *before* he confessed to the crime? That's gonna help how? I liked how they wrapped up loose ends, but that whole plot was goofy.
That pretty much limits you to Sponge Bob and re-runs of Julia Child on PBS.
I thought it made perfect sense. John has kids, a family to raise. Billy was kind of an f-up who had nothing. And John was able to manipulate that into having him “help” protect Kevin because he had less to lose They already had the Billy in bloody clothes circumstantial piece so I think John was banking on that being enough with playing it up to Billy’s guilt caused him to kill himself. He was worried Billy would crack and tell the true story instead of his confession. He was losing his brother either way, at least this way he could control the story
Yeah, that's absolutely how you tie the knot. But 100% of that is just implied, and thinly at that. You're left with "why is that happening? Ohhh, a bunch of stuff is unsaid and if you take some guesses I guess it makes sense."
Just watched Unbelievable on Netflix. Excellent show, though it's quite the emotional journey and definitely deserves trigger warnings for anyone that has suffered sexual violence. Very well acted, well presented, and worth the time.
The Denzel Magnificent 7 remake?Better flick: The Seven Samurai or the Magnificent Seven?
SPOILER ALERT!Of course it doesn't make sense...
Well done! I'd forgotten half of those plot holes.
I could keep going, there are lots more.
This reminded me that I’d been meaning to watch it.Blew threw about 1.5 seasons in the last week and change. It’s really great.I mentioned to my friend who recommended it to me, it’s more like Succession taking place in wealthy ranching Montana than a Western. I also appreciate the fact that it’s kind of a new idea in terms of plot. Cant remember something else like it.It also has a couple of actors in their sweet spot. Costner as a rough around the edges protagonist of sorts. Danny Huston was made to play a rich A**hole villain. Cole Hauser is at his best in gritty roles. Josh Lucas, Gil Birmingham, and Luke Grimes are spot on too. Great casting
If you have a few minutes (literally) I strongly recommend "Us Again" on Disney+. It is a 6-minute animated short that ran before Raya and the Last Dragon in theaters and is absolutely delightful. An adorable little musical, dance number that's really fun to watch.
In a blender.Watching Goliath this weekend.
First Season was phenomenal. Got progressively worse as the series went on.